The Best Articles in Privacy

The most useful articles and videos in Privacy from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.

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Top 5 Privacy Articles

At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Privacy by Refind users in 2023 so far.

  1. How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
  2. American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA
  3. On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
  4. How to Check Your Devices for Stalkerware
  5. A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

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Short Articles

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Long Articles

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Thought Leaders

We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Privacy, including:

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zeynep tufekci

Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @Columbia professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter @insight http://www.theinsight.org

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Patrick Gray

Host of the Risky Business® podcast. Guests by invitation only. Bsky: http://riskybusiness.bsky.social

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Gabriel Weinberg

Founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo. Co-author of the books Super Thinking & Traction. Tweets auto-delete via TweetDelete. DMs open.

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Mozilla

We work to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to all. The nonprofit behind @Firefox. #BlackLivesMatter

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briankrebs

Independent investigative journalist. Author of 'Spam Nation,' a NYT bestseller. Former Washington Post reporter. Mastodon: http://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs

Publications

We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Privacy, including:

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MIT Technology Review

Our in-depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s really happening now to help you know what’s coming next. http://technologyreview.com/newsletters

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EFF

We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We defend your civil liberties in a digital world.

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The Intercept

Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: http://interc.pt/newsletter

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WIRED UK

The future as it happens. Subscribe today: http://wired.co.uk/subs/MWR19762

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The Markup

Challenging technology to serve the public good. Send tips: http://mrkup.org/tips. Subscribe: http://mrkup.org/klaxon. Support: http://mrkup.org/donate. Mastodon: http://mrkup.org/masto

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Every day Refind picks the most relevant links from around the web for you. Picking only a handful of links means focusing on what’s relevant and useful. We favor timeless pieces—links with long shelf-lives, articles that are still relevant one month, one year, or even ten years from now. These lists of the best resources on any topic are the result of years of careful curation.

How does Refind curate?

It’s a mix of human and algorithmic curation, following a number of steps:

  1. We monitor 10k+ sources and 1k+ thought leaders on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
  2. In addition, our users save links from around the web using our Save buttons and our extensions.
  3. Our algorithm processes 100k+ new links every day and uses external signals to find the most relevant ones, focusing on timeless pieces.
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The result: lists of the best and most useful articles on hundreds of topics.

How does Refind detect «timeless» pieces?

We focus on pieces with long shelf-lives—not news. We determine «timelessness» via a number of metrics, for example, the consumption pattern of links over time.

How many sources does Refind monitor?

We monitor 10k+ content sources on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.

Which sources does Refind monitor in Privacy?

We monitor hundreds of sources in Privacy, including MIT Technology Review, EFF, The Intercept, WIRED UK, The Markup, and many more.

Who are the thought leaders in Privacy?

We follow dozens of thought leaders in Privacy, including zeynep tufekci, Patrick Gray, Gabriel Weinberg, Mozilla, briankrebs.

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